13 februari 2009

Single Wife

Jag är lite allergisk mot chic lit just nu. Jag var rädd för att det skulle vara hömppälitteratur. Visade sig vara helt okej bok. En sån där vanlig bok. Vanlig fiktion. Till och med en bok som jag kan rekommendera till folk.

Most men who leave their wives have the courtesy to (at least) leave a note, but not journalist Laz Brookman. At the start of this charming first novel, he casually leaves his New York apartment one morning and never returns: "He left as if he were going... to buy the Sunday Times (although they had it delivered) or to walk the dog (but they had none)." Anxious to save face and preserve the precarious normality of her life, and certain that he will soon return-mysterious several-day-long disappearing acts not being uncommon with her husband-Grace Brookman secretly begins living two lives, Laz's and her own.

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